New offering helps businesses launch and grow

San Francisco – March 17, 2015 – 99designs, the largest global marketplace for graphic
design, and Jimdo, one of the leading website builders, today announced a strategic
partnership to provide small business owners with logo design, website creation and
hosting seamlessly on the 99designs website. By bringing the services together it will be
easier, faster and more affordable for clients across the globe to launch their businesses
and begin offering products and services quickly.

"We think great brands start with a great logo and 99designs has successfully created
hundreds of thousands of logos for businesses and entrepreneurs globally," said
99designs President and CEO Patrick Llewellyn. "As we’ve grown and evolved, so have
our customers’ needs. Now, with the addition of Jimdo, businesses can extend the
essence of the brand captured in their logo to their hosted website."

The deep integration between 99designs and Jimdo makes it even easier for
entrepreneurs around the world to launch a business without having to spend time
locating, interviewing and hiring designers and developers for logo and website creation.
Instead, an owner can focus energy and time on other important business initiatives.
99designs delivers a professionally designed logo and ready-to-use, mobile-friendly,
easy-to-edit Jimdo website for as little as $499. A custom logo design and matching
website is live in as quickly as fourteen days. The package includes hosting for a year.

"This package also allows businesses to manage and edit their website even after the
logo design contest is over, without requiring any special skills," said Jimdo co-
founder Christian Springub."

"Businesses need a strong brand and a strong website presence to succeed and this new
partnership will provide that quickly, easily and affordably. Jimdo and 99designs were
both founded to help small businesses create and grow, and this logo and website
package is only the beginning."

How it works in four easy steps

Customers visit 99designs and launch a Logo+Website contest.

Customers complete a creative brief by answering a few questions about their business and preferred design style.

Design concepts stream in at which time the customer can collaborate and provide feedback to refine their favorite.

The customer selects a final logo design and the designer delivers a hosted Jimdo website that is easy to edit without requiring any technical skill.

What’s included for $499.

Logo Design

Hosted website styled by designer to match the logo

Custom domain name

One year of free hosting

About 99designs

99designs, the world’s largest graphic design marketplace, has helped over 350,000
businesses access quality design at an affordable price. 99designs pioneered crowd-
sourced design contests, where businesses receive a wide variety of design concepts and
choose their favorite, and expanded to provide services for customers to work 1-on-1
with individual designers, purchase design templates from the ready-made logo store, or
get small design projects done within an hour through Tasks. With more than 950,000
designers from 192 countries around the world, 99designs’ suite of services helps
businesses succeed through great design created by a robust community of talented
graphic designers. 99designs is backed by Accel Partners.

About Jimdo

Jimdo is the easiest way to create a website on a computer, smartphone, or tablet. With
a simple intuitive interface, Jimdo enables anyone to create a customized online
presence with a blog and online store. Founded in Germany in 2007 by Christian
Springub, Fridtjof Detzner, and Matthias Henze, the company set a new standard in
website creation. Profitable since 2009 without venture capital, Jimdo has a passionate
team of 200 people in Hamburg, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Jimdo is available in 9
languages and has helped people build over 12 million websites. For more on Jimdo
visit: http://www.jimdo.com